2007 / Bodrum. With reference to topography and the nature of the region, the angles of sun, winds, greenery and slopes of the terrain guided the land use of the program housing hotel, private villas and social areas which are constituents of the summer resort project in the South of Turkey. Close to the Bodrum […]
St. Regis Hotels opens Istanbul flagship. The opening of the St. Regis Istanbul marks the luxury brand’s debut in Turkey and features the first international outpost of Wolfgang Puck’s Spago restaurant plus the world’s second Bentley Suite. Designed by Turkish architect Emre Arolat, the hotel sits atop Maçka Park, with views of the Bosphorus from […]
Complex comprising a hotel, a residential hotel, a convention centre, condominiums, retails and a marina. The site of the project is located on the western side of the city, along the road linking Ataturk International Airport (Atatürk Uluslararası Havalimanı / İstanbul Atatürk Havalimanı) to the heart of the old city. The urban location of this […]
A hotel in France is offering guests the chance to stay in fully-furnished, clear-plastic bubbles and sleep amongst nature. Last year, designer Pierre Stephane Dumas unveiled his line of room-sized, transparent bubbles that allow people to sleep with almost nothing blocking their view of nature. His goal was to create a portable space that was both comfortable […]
99 Bonham, new boutique hotel in Hong Kong, designed by Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel and Partners in 2012. 99 Bonham, a newly-built apartment hotel located on Bonham Strand in Sheung Wan, Hong Kong. Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel and Partners develops projects for residential and commercial complexes, industrial facilities, restructuring and conservation of public buildings, space planning for […]
Selenium Marina in Ataköy, İstanbul, Turkey designed by İstanbul based Turkish architecture firm TAGO Architects. Employer of the project is Istanbul based construction company Aşçıoğlu. Category of the project; hotel. Construction m2 is 28.000 m2. Project year: 2008 – 2009. TAGO Architects was founded by Turkish architect Gökhan Aktan Altuğ and İstanbul based Japanese architect […]
Nordic Sea Hotel designed by Swedish architect and designer Jonas Wagell’s Stockholm based design and architecture practise JWDA for Nordic Hotels. Nordic Sea Hotel occupies a former police station in the center of Stockholm. The facility has obvious limitation in terms of the spatial quality of the existing building, but also need to address functional requirements like flow […]
Located in Jurmala, Latvia, Acoustic Compositon is a music themed hotel, designed by architects Nicolas Dorval-Bory and Raphaël Bétillon’s architecture office Betillon / Dorval-Bory for Hotel Liesma. This is a competition project and Betillon / Dorval-Bory received competition 2nd prize with Acoustic Composition. Total area of Acoustic Compositon is 9500 m2. Betillon / Dorval-Bory team for […]
Located in Cihangir, Istanbul, Turkey, Witt Istanbul is an architectural project of Istanbul-based Turkish design studio Autoban. Architect Seyhan Ozdemir and interior designer Sefer Caglar from Autoban designed Witt Istanbul. 1975 born Seyhan Ozdemir and 1973 born Sefer Caglar met at Fine Arts Faculty of Mimar Sinan University, where Ozdemir was studying Architecture and Caglar, […]
Solar Floating Resort by Italian industrial designer Michele Puzzolante sets good example for global warming. Solar energy technologies such as photovoltaic panels could provide a third of the world’s energy by 2060 if politicians commit to limiting global warming. In 2011, the International Energy Agency has said that solar energy can make considerable contributions to solving […]
The Yas Hotel in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates designed by New York-based Asymptote Architecture. The Yas Hotel, a 500-room, 85,000-square-meter structure made up of two twelve story hotel towers linked together by a monocoque steel and glass bridge A Grid Shell structure that both cross above and over the Yas Marina Circuit F1 race track. It […]
Endemico Resguardo Silvestre designed by Gracia Studio has Travel & Leisure Best Small Hotel Award 2012. Situated along the sloping terrain of valle de guadalupe, Mexico, Endemico Resguardo Silvestre is a cluster of twenty hotel rooms, designed by San Diego, California-based practice Gracia Studio. Positioned within a landscape of vineyards, each ecoloft has panoramic vistas overlooking […]
